and i'm reminded of this - http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=799&dat=19900131&id=IXtPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vlEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5085,3124369 http://news.google.com/newsp

and i'm reminded of this - http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=799&dat=19900131&id=IXtPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vlEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5085,3124369 http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=799&dat=19900131&#... actually met some of the escapees, in paris, several years ago now. it's not a smart idea to lock up a bunch of mining engineers in an old jail... (iirc they used plastic coca-cola bottles [la leche negra del imperialismo!], end to end, to make a pipe down which they pumped air to breath; they also had rails and a trolley).